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June 01, 2010 Abstract

The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership: Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Activities

The PCOR Partnership is one of seven regional partnerships established by the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory to assess and develop carbon sequestration opportunities. The PCOR Partnership covers an area of over 1.4 million square miles in the central interior of North America and includes all or parts of nine states and four Canadian provinces. The PCOR Partnership is characterizing the region's stationary CO2 sources and sinks and evaluating the development of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in our region by providing outreach and technical support for carbon management activities for our industrial, governmental, and other partners and conducting commercially relevant demonstrations. The PCOR Partnership has conducted four field validation tests thus far: 1) Apache Canada Limited hosted a combined enhanced oil recovery (EOR)/sequestration activity that injected acid gas (approximately 70% CO2 and 30% H2S) into a pinnacle reef structure from the Zama, Alberta, gas plant for use as a miscible flood agent; 2) an EOR project in the Williston Basin demonstrated the potential of using CO2 in a tertiary oil recovery operation in a carbonate formation at depths of approximately 8000 feet; 3) the potential for simultaneous CO2 sequestration and enhanced coalbed methane production in a Williston Basin unminable lignite coal seam was investigated; and 4) a terrestrial field validation test developed carbon offsets from the use of alternative land management of wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region. The PCOR Partnership has teamed with industrial partners to conduct two commercial-scale (greater than 1 million tons of CO2 a year) CCS demonstrations in the region. One of the large-scale tests will demonstrate CO2 storage in a saline formation. In this demonstration, sour CO2 (a mixture of CO2 and H2S) will be injected to a dep

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Event/Meeting Information

2010 RMS-AAPG Meeting
6/13/2010
Durango, CO